Dubliners Danny O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power – otherwise known as The Script – tee up the follow up to 2008’s 1.8 million selling self-titled global smash debut with a stirring, thought-provoking single ‘For The First Time’.

The song, written by Danny and Mark, was prompted by the band returning to Dublin on the back of their monumental success, only to be devastated that their friends’ fortunes had turned far bleaker due to Ireland’s economic crisis.

“People are getting stripped of everything”, says Danny, “stripped of their jobs and their homes and their furniture, so its going to back to an old thing of drinking cheap bottles of wine, having dinner on the floor, and it’s like they are meeting each other for the first time…